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In the morning, as always, we line up to go into school.
Someone says, "Let's leapfrog in."
And . . .
spring-boink, spring-sproink
. . . we do.
Join this lively group of Asian children as they pretend and imagine their way through the day, becoming ponies that prance, birds that swoop, tigers that slurp, and dreamers who invent a thousand other things to become . . . on another day.
Carole Lexa Schaefer and Pierr Morgan, author and illustrator of The Squiggle, bring together vibrant artwork and onomatopoeic language to celebrate and inspire the wondrous creativity of children.
Illustrated by Pierr Morgan.
Someone says, "Let's leapfrog in."
And . . .
spring-boink, spring-sproink
. . . we do.
Join this lively group of Asian children as they pretend and imagine their way through the day, becoming ponies that prance, birds that swoop, tigers that slurp, and dreamers who invent a thousand other things to become . . . on another day.
Carole Lexa Schaefer and Pierr Morgan, author and illustrator of The Squiggle, bring together vibrant artwork and onomatopoeic language to celebrate and inspire the wondrous creativity of children.
Illustrated by Pierr Morgan.
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From School Library Journal:
PreSchool-K-An appealing group of children is on its way to school when someone gets the idea to leapfrog the way there and-"spring-boink, spring-sproink"-everyone joins in. Sparked by one another's inspirations, they think of other imaginative things to do-they make up songs, draw a classmate dancing like a pony, build a house with blocks, pretend they are birds, eat their lunch like tigers, and, finally, head home to dream up another day. The simplicity of the story is enriched with rhythmic, playful language and the repetition of "we do" as the children transform everyday activities into creative ideas and action. The exuberant art, combining Prismacolor markers and gouache, shows colorfully dressed youngsters bursting with energy. Superimposed over several scenes are bold drawings of their imaginings-frogs of yellow, green, and turquoise; singers reminiscent of characters from The Mikado; prancing horses; and dramatic buildings. The final spread is an eye-popper as three sleeping children dream away, one wrapped in the arms of a panda, another plucking the strings of an instrument, and the central figure morphing into a magnificent butterfly. A glorious book.
Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist:
Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
PreS-Gr. 1. In The Squiggle (1996), a class of preschoolers created an imagined world from a ribbon's swirl. In this joyful follow-up, the class finds more magic in simple, everyday activities, from entering school to eating lunch noodles. The spare, poetic text follows a pattern: a child makes a suggestion ("Let's eat up our noodles like tigers!") and the group leaps into action. The words crackle with rhythm and sound ("scribba-dibba," "floosh-flash," "slip, slop, slurp") that is perfect for read-alouds, and the images beautifully extend the story's tone of freewheeling creativity in uncluttered, Asian-influenced pictures showing real and imagined worlds together. On one spread, for example, jumping frogs, rendered in just a few elegant gouache strokes, overlay bright marker drawings of leap-frogging children. With minimal words and colored lines, this title perfectly captures preschoolers' exuberant energy and the limitless fun they have when they work together. Gillian Engberg
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0142404616
- ISBN 13 9780142404614
- BindingPaperback
- IllustratorPierr Morgan
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